Ballard Spahr hires trademark attorney Susan Smith from Hunton Andrews as partner, Trademark and Copyright practice group ... TechNet adds Servando Esparza, ex-Bird Rides, as executive director-Texas and the Southeast ... Electronic Transactions Association hires Max Behlke, ex-National Conference of State Legislatures, as director-state government affairs.
Dish Network government affairs adds Jamellah Ellis, ex-Verizon, as senior regulatory counsel, and Lyndall Nipps, ex-tw telecom and Windstream, as senior regulatory specialist, both for state regulatory compliance; the MVPD also hires Tripp McKemey, ex-office of Rep. Greg Gianforte, R-Mont., who was recently elected governor, as senior government affairs analyst for federal lobbying team, focusing on House Republicans ... Jenner & Block hires Aaron Cooper, ex-Senate Intelligence Committee Russia investigation and former DOJ cybercrime prosecutor, as special counsel for Investigations, Compliance and Defense Practice; Government Controversies and Public Policy Litigation Practice; and Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice.
President-elect Joe Biden announces he's naming Neera Tanden, Center for American Progress, who "would be the first woman of color and first South Asian American to lead the OMB," and Kate Bedingfield, ex-MPA, White House communications director, a job she did for the Biden-Kamala Harris campaign ... Sinclair’s One Media 3.0 hires So Vang from NAB as vice president-emerging technologies ... BTIG adds Chris Dorn as managing director, Healthcare Investment Banking, where he will focus on healthcare IT and digital health companies.
Digital Colony taps from Macquarie Infrastructure Liam Stewart as managing director-chief operating officer, succeeding Jeff Ginsberg, who remains chief administrative officer and on investment committee of Digital Colony Partners inaugural fund ... Macy’s hires Univision Communications' Bobby Amirshahi as senior vice president-corporate communications, succeeding Cheryl Heinonen, leaving "after the Holiday season to relocate back home to the West Coast" ... Sun Capital Partners adds Elizabeth de Saint-Aignan, ex-Jump Capital, for managing director, Transactions team, leading "the firm’s focus on investments in the technology vertical."
Upon completion of ViacomCBS' sale of Simon & Schuster to Bertelsmann's Penguin Random House for $2.175 billion cash, expected in 2021, "Simon & Schuster will continue to be managed as a separate publishing unit under the Penguin Random House umbrella," led by Simon & Schuster President-CEO Jonathan Karp and Chief Operations Officer-Chief Financial Officer Dennis Eulau.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., won't seek to be Senate Judiciary Committee chairman or ranking member next Congress ... New Jersey Board of Public Utilities adds Taryn Boland, ex-Corporation for Supportive Housing, as deputy chief of staff.
Cordell Hull, who has led the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security for the past year, resigns, effective Dec. 4, ahead of the incoming Biden administration ... Amazon hires Rob Haralson as senior manager-public policy ... Carbon 3D printing technology company appoints Anirma Gupta, ex-Tanium, senior vice president-general counsel-corporate secretary.
President-elect Joe Biden announced new members of his White House staff: Cathy Russell, who's on advisory board of Biden-Harris Transition Team and was vice chair of their campaign, named director, Office of Presidential Personnel; and Louisa Terrell, who oversees legislative affairs for the transition team, as director, Office of Legislative Affairs ... President Donald Trump will appoint Basil Parker as administrator, OMB Office of Electronic Government.
NTCA adds Mano Koilpillai, ex-Dynamic Consulting and Accounting, as chief financial officer; Roxanna Barboza, ex-Department of Agriculture, as industry and cybersecurity policy analyst; and Lauren Gaydos, ex-communications director for Rep. Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., as public relations manager ... Charlotte Willner from Pinterest named founding executive director of Trust & Safety Professional Association and its sibling organization Trust & Safety Foundation Project.
R Street Institute hires Wayne Brough, ex-Innovation Defense Foundation, as managing senior fellow, Technology and Innovation team; Ashley Nunes, who led Harvard Law School research, becomes project director-competition policy; and Chris Riley, ex-Mozilla, for senior fellow-internet governance, Technology and Innovation team ... Dorsey & Whitney promotes to partners, effective Jan. 1, Spencer Glende in Technology Commerce and Bonnie Paskvan for Regulatory Affairs, telecom.